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by nox101 693 days ago
Steam asks for admin to be installed and asks for it again to install more features related to screen sharing.

To me, any app that asks for admin is suspect.

2 comments

Admin privileges aren't the same thing as a kernel-mode driver. Steam does require admin to be installed, but it does not install a kernel-mode driver.
are you sure about that? anti cheat stuff is pretty invasive these days
per microsoft admin to kernel is not a security boundary
Root and kernel are different levels.